Where does “pöytä” come from?

pöytä (Finnish) comes from Latin mēnsa, from Latin mēnsus, from Latin -tus, from Proto-Italic -tus, from Proto-Indo-European -tus — Derives action nouns from verb roots.

pöytä (Finnish): table

Definitions

  1. table

Ancestry of “pöytä”, step by step

pöytä traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Latin mēnsa

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Latinmēnsaa table
2Latinmēnsushaving measured, estimated
3Latin-tusForms the past participle of verbs; Forms...
4Proto-Italic-tus—
5Proto-Indo-European-tusDerives action nouns from verb roots

via Proto-Finnic peütä

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Finnicpeütätable
2Proto-GermanicbeudazThat on which something is offered; table
3Proto-Indo-Europeanbʰewdʰ-to be awake, be aware

Words derived from “pöytä”

Every word from Proto-Indo-European -tus →Every word from Latin -tus →Every word from Latin mēnsus →